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OAKRIDGE MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC
320 Post Road, Suite 110, Darien, CT 06820
Tel: (475) 328-5000
Email: donovanr@oakridgemg.com
FORM ADV PART 2A
Firm Brochure
March 31, 2025
information about OakRidge
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This disclosure brochure (“Brochure”) provides information about the qualifications and business
practices of OakRidge Management Group LLC (“OakRidge” or the “Firm”). If you have any
questions about the contents of this brochure, please contact us at 475-328-5000 or
donovanr@oakridgemg.com. The information in this brochure has not been approved or verified
by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) or by any state securities authority.
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the SEC’s website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Registration with the SEC as an investment adviser does not imply that Oakridge or any principals
or employees of Oakridge possess a particular level of skill or training in the investment advisory
business or any other business.
This brochure does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of any offer to buy any security.
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Item 2. Material Changes
OakRidge Management Group LLC has the following material changes to report since the filing
of its last amendment to the brochure on March 29, 2024:
• The Firm has amended Item 10 to remove references to Aligned Investments as Michael
Smith is no longer operating that business.
Item 3. Table of Contents
Item 1. Cover Page…………………………………………………………………………………1
Item 2. Material Changes ................................................................................................................. 2
Item 3. Table of Contents ................................................................................................................. 2
Item 4. Advisory Business ............................................................................................................... 3
Item 5. Fees and Compensation ....................................................................................................... 4
Item 6. Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management ................................................... 5
Item 7. Types of Clients ................................................................................................................... 6
Item 8. Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss............................................ 6
Item 9. Disciplinary Information ..................................................................................................... 6
Item 10. Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations .......................................................... 6
Item 11. Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions, & Personal Trading ................. 6
Item 12. Brokerage Practices ........................................................................................................... 8
Item 13. Review of Accounts ........................................................................................................... 8
Item 14. Client Referrals and Other Compensation ......................................................................... 9
Item 15. Custody .............................................................................................................................. 9
Item 16. Investment Discretion ........................................................................................................ 9
Item 17. Voting Client Securities ................................................................................................... 10
Item 18. Financial Information ...................................................................................................... 10
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Item 4. Advisory Business
OakRidge Management Group LLC (“OakRidge”) is a Delaware limited liability company that
was formed on September 24, 2019, and is registered to do business in Connecticut. OakRidge
offers a comprehensive multi-family office services platform to high-net-worth individuals and
family offices.
OakRidge’s services include: (i) discretionary and non-discretionary investment management
services; (ii) financial planning and strategy; (iii) balance sheet optimization; (iv) trusts and estates
and wealth transfer planning; (v) philanthropic planning; (vi) next generation education; (vii) day-
to-day administration of a family’s affairs; (viii) identification, diligencing, and selection of third-
party service providers; and (ix) management and coordination of third-party service providers.
OakRidge also sources, originates, performs due diligence on, structures, and executes investments
for its clients in privately offered securities, directly or indirectly through one or more pooled
investment vehicles to be managed by its affiliate, Oakridge Alternatives Group LLC (“OakRidge
Alternatives”). OakRidge Alternatives relies on OakRidge’s registration with the SEC as a
registered investment adviser and is a “relying adviser” for purposes of this Form ADV. Advisory
services provided to pooled investment vehicles managed by OakRidge Alternatives will be
provided on a discretionary basis. Although such pooled investment vehicles will be advisory
clients of OakRidge, references in this brochure to the term “client” generally should be understood
to mean OakRidge’s high-net-worth individual and family office clients, unless the context
otherwise requires.
Timothy R. Powers, Michael Smith, Scott Phillips, and Ryan Donovan are the principals of
OakRidge Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company that is the sole member of
OakRidge and OakRidge Alternatives.
Investment Management Services
OakRidge provides non-discretionary and/or discretionary investment management services with
respect to each client’s investable assets (the “Investment Management Services”). OakRidge will
work with each client to develop investment guidelines based on the client’s investment objectives,
risk tolerance, and other factors. OakRidge will make recommendations to each client with respect
to asset allocation and the investment and reinvestment of the client’s assets. In the case of
OakRidge’s nondiscretionary investment management services, OakRidge shall purchase or sell
securities or other financial instruments for the applicable client’s account only upon such client’s
authorization. In the case of OakRidge’s discretionary investment management services, OakRidge
will have the authority to purchase or sell securities or other financial instruments for the applicable
client’s account without such authorization.
Family Office Services
For certain clients, OakRidge provides family office services, including advising on financial
planning and strategy, balance sheet optimization, trusts and estates and wealth transfer planning,
philanthropic planning, next generation education, day-to-day administration of a family’s affairs,
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identification, diligencing, and selection of third-party service providers, and management and
coordination of third-party service providers (the “Family Office Services”).
OakRidge’s approach includes creating a custom monitoring and reporting infrastructure and
managing relationships with third-party service providers in order to promote coordination, timely
execution, fee management, and efficiency.
Private Investment Services
For certain clients, OakRidge: (i) sources, originates, performs due diligence, structures, and
executes investments in privately offered securities, directly or indirectly through the creation of
one or more pooled investment vehicles; (ii) provides post-close monitoring and exit support of
transactions in private investments; (iii) assists with ongoing management of private investments;
and (iv) provides support and assumes governance roles as needed in private companies (the
“Private Investment Services”). OakRidge Alternatives was formed for the purpose of acting as
the managing member of certain of the pooled investments vehicles formed by OakRidge.
OakRidge does not participate in or sponsor wrap-fee programs.
As of December 31, 2024, OakRidge had regulatory assets under management of
$1,080,694,337, of which $190,296,562 was managed on a discretionary basis and $890,397,775
was managed on a non-discretionary basis.
Item 5. Fees and Compensation
OakRidge typically charges clients a single annual fixed fee for its services. The amount of the fee,
which is payable in advance in quarterly installments, is negotiated with each client and is based
only on the types of services that OakRidge is engaged to provide, whether the client seeks to
participate in deal flow or benefit from OakRidge’s sourcing network, and the size and complexity
of each client’s investment portfolio. The annual fee is typically not less than $250,000 per year
and is not based on the level of assets under management. The annual fee payable by each client is
set forth in the services agreement between OakRidge and the client. OakRidge may, in its sole
discretion, reduce, waive, or calculate differently its fee with respect to certain clients, including
members, officers, affiliates, or employees of OakRidge or its affiliates or such person’s family
members and trusts or other entities established for the benefit of such person or his or her family.
For some qualified clients, OakRidge expects to charge a performance-based fee for its advisory
services. OakRidge will negotiate the terms of this compensation on a case-by-case basis and will
include such terms in the applicable advisory contract (which may be in the form of a limited
partnership agreement or limited liability agreement). OakRidge will charge performance-based
fees only to clients that are “qualified clients” under Rule 205-3(d)(1) under the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (“Advisers Act”).
Each client will be responsible for certain charges imposed by unaffiliated third parties and
incurred in connection with OakRidge’s provision of the services, including during the investment
of, or arising from the investment or administration of, each client’s assets. Clients will incur
brokerage commissions and other transaction costs. Please refer to Item 12 (Brokerage Practices).
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Other types of fees or expenses clients may be responsible for paying include (but are not limited
to): fees payable to providers of data aggregation services; legal and accounting fees; research-
related fees; costs of due diligence; fees for proxy services; fees for underwriting and private
placements; interest on debt balances or borrowings; charges imposed directly by a mutual fund,
index fund, or exchange-traded fund purchased for the account, which shall be disclosed in the
fund’s prospectus (e.g., fund management fees and other fund expenses); certain deferred sales
charges; odd-lot differentials; transfer taxes; wire transfer and electronic fund fees; other fees and
taxes on brokerage accounts and securities transactions; fees associated with customized reporting;
and expenses incurred in connection with the purchase, holding, or sale of any private investment.
Neither Oakridge nor its supervised persons will receive any compensation with respect to the
purchase or sale of securities or other investment products by any client.
In certain circumstances, when OakRidge sponsors and launches a privately offered pooled
investment vehicle advised by OakRidge or its affiliates, investors in such vehicle are charged a
performance-based fee with respect to their interests in such vehicle, payable to OakRidge
Alternatives or another OakRidge affiliate, as applicable. This performance-based fee is in addition
to the fixed advisory fee charged by OakRidge for managing the client’s assets. The fees associated
with investment in any pooled investment vehicle formed by OakRidge or its affiliates will be
disclosed in such vehicle’s offering and/or operative documents. OakRidge Alternatives and any
other OakRidge affiliates will charge performance-based fees only to investors in pooled
investment vehicles that are “qualified clients” under Rule 205-3(d)(1) under the Advisers Act.
Item 6. Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management
A description of the fees, including performance-based fees, to which OakRidge (and its advisory
affiliates) is entitled is provided above in Item 5 (Fees and Compensation). OakRidge may provide
investment advisory services to additional clients in the future that may have similar or different
performance-based compensation arrangements than those outlined above.
Performance-based fees create a conflict of interest between OakRidge and its clients because they
can encourage OakRidge to recommend riskier assets that could enhance its fees if the investments
are profitable. In addition, when allocating an investment opportunity between clients, OakRidge
has an incentive to favor clients that have agreed to a performance-based fee over those that pay
other forms of compensation.
As a fiduciary, OakRidge is required to act in a manner that is fair and equitable in allocating
investment opportunities among its clients.
OakRidge addresses the conflict of interest associated with the receipt of performance-based
compensation through the application of its trade allocation procedures, which, among other
things, require that any potential benefits to OakRidge are not given weight in determining how
investment opportunities are allocated among clients. OakRidge periodically reviews allocation of
investment opportunities and sequencing of transactions to determine whether clients are treated
fairly.
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Item 7. Types of Clients
OakRidge provides advisory services to ultra-high-net-worth families, including individual family
members and their related entities. OakRidge’s affiliate, OakRidge Alternatives, also manages
private funds on behalf of OakRidge.
At this time, OakRidge does not require a minimum amount of assets for its services.
Item 8. Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss
OakRidge’s investment approach focuses primarily on asset allocation: OakRidge attempts to find
an appropriate ratio of exchange-traded securities, private equity investments, fixed income, and
cash suitable to the client’s financial goals, time horizon, and risk tolerance.
Oakridge’s asset allocation strategy is structured using a combination of academic theory and
informed market judgment. Using quantitative techniques, OakRidge evaluates expected asset
class returns in the context of their historical volatility over market cycles. OakRidge then
estimates expected risk and return profiles of various asset allocation alternatives with the goal of
constructing portfolios that best reflect each client’s specific needs. Once a target asset allocation
is determined, OakRidge works with clients to thoughtfully move towards an agreed-upon target
allocation taking into consideration the client’s financial goals, time horizon, tax status, liquidity
needs, and risk tolerance. Oakridge periodically monitors and reviews the strategy to ensure that it
remains aligned with the client’s investment objective.
Item 9. Disciplinary Information
Neither OakRidge nor its principals have been the subject of any material legal proceeding required
to be disclosed in response to this item.
Item 10. Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
As noted above, Oakridge Alternatives serves as managing member of pooled investment vehicles
sponsored by OakRidge and its affiliates. Timothy R. Powers, Ryan Donovan, Scott Phillips, and
Michael Smith have an indirect ownership interest in OakRidge Alternatives through their
ownership of OakRidge Holdings LLC. As such, a conflict of interest exists when OakRidge
recommends an investment in pooled investment vehicles for which OakRidge Alternatives serves
as managing member because OakRidge and its affiliates can earn more compensation from clients
as a result of such recommendation to invest in such pooled investment vehicles.
Item 11. Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions, and Personal
Trading
OakRidge strives to adhere to the highest industry standards of conduct based on principles of
professionalism, integrity, honesty, and trust. In seeking to meet these standards, OakRidge has
adopted a code of ethics (the “Code”) that complies with Rule 204A-1 of the Advisers Act. The
Code is reviewed and updated (if necessary) at least annually.
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The Code sets forth, among other things, fiduciary standards that apply to all employees and will
govern outside employment and receipt of gifts. Additionally, the Code incorporates the following
general principles that all employees are expected to uphold: employees must at all times place
the interests of clients first; all personal securities transactions must be conducted in a manner
consistent with the Code and any actual or potential conflicts of interest or any abuse of an
employee’s position of trust and responsibility must be avoided; employees must not take any
inappropriate advantage of their positions; and information concerning the identity of securities
and financial circumstances of clients must be kept confidential. The Code imposes restrictions on
the personal securities trading of employees, including requiring that they disclose their personal
securities holdings and transactions to OakRidge on a periodic basis, and requires that employees
and service providers pre-clear certain types of personal securities transactions.
Clients may request the opportunity to review a copy of the Code by contacting OakRidge at the
address or telephone number listed on the first page of this brochure.
OakRidge anticipates that related persons of OakRidge may purchase interests in portfolio
investments held by one or more of the pooled investment vehicles formed by OakRidge. All such
purchases are subject to compliance with the Code.
As part of the Code, OakRidge maintains insider trading policies and procedures that are designed
to prevent the misuse of material, non-public information. OakRidge’s personnel are required to
certify their compliance with the Code, including the insider trading policy, on at least an annual
basis.
The insider trading policies prohibit OakRidge and its personnel from trading for themselves or
clients, or recommending trading, in securities of any company while in possession of material,
non-public information about the company, and from disclosing such information to any person
not entitled to receive it. By reason of its various activities, OakRidge may have access to inside
information or be restricted from effecting transactions in certain investments that might otherwise
have been initiated. OakRidge has implemented policies and procedures reasonably designed to
closely monitor the access of its investment professionals to inside information. Among other
things, such policies seek to control and monitor the flow of inside information to and within
OakRidge, as well as to prevent trading securities based on inside information.
Notwithstanding such policies and procedures, there may be certain cases where OakRidge may
receive inside information due to its various activities either on behalf of itself or clients, and
consequently may be restricted in acting for clients with respect to the relevant securities. As a
result, OakRidge may, under certain circumstances, be prohibited for a period of time from
engaging in transactions, which prohibition may have an adverse effect on a client. OakRidge seeks
to minimize those cases whenever possible, consistent with applicable law and its insider trading
policies, but there can be no assurance that such efforts will be successful and that such restrictions
will not occur.
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Item 12. Brokerage Practices
When selecting broker-dealers to effect securities transactions, the determinative factor is not the
lowest possible commission cost but whether the transaction represents the best qualitative
execution, taking into consideration the full range of the broker-dealer’s services including a
broker’s or dealer’s execution capability, facilities, reliability, financial responsibility, the value of
research provided, commission rates, and responsiveness, as well as such other factors as
OakRidge considers relevant and beneficial to its clients. To the extent consistent with achieving
best execution, OakRidge may consider other business a particular broker or dealer has done with
OakRidge, such as identifying investment opportunities. Accordingly, the commission rates (or
dealer markups and markdowns) charged to clients by brokers or dealers in the foregoing
circumstances may be higher than those charged by other brokers or dealers that may not offer
such services.
OakRidge does not consider the receipt of any client referrals when selecting broker-dealers for
the execution of client transactions.
Certain clients may require brokerage to be directed to a specific broker-dealer. In those instances,
OakRidge may be unable to achieve the most favorable execution of brokerage transactions for the
client; the client will have the sole responsibility to negotiate terms and arrangements for the
account with the broker, and OakRidge will not seek better execution services or prices from other
broker-dealers. Other than certain clients who have directed brokerage to a specific broker-dealer,
OakRidge does not have any arrangements with any clients that require it to execute transactions
through a specified broker-dealer.
If OakRidge believes that the purchase or sale of a security is in the best interest of more than one
client, it may (but is not obligated to) aggregate the orders to be sold or purchased to obtain
favorable execution or lower brokerage commissions, to the extent practicable and when permitted
by applicable laws and regulations. Where trades are aggregated, the transactions, as well as the
expenses incurred in the transactions, will be allocated by OakRidge according to a policy designed
to ensure that such allocation is fair and equitable over time and consistent with OakRidge’s
fiduciary duty and client guidelines in order to construct a fully invested portfolio (including its
duty to seek to obtain best execution of trades).
Depending upon market conditions, the aggregation of orders may result in higher or lower average
prices paid or received. Orders that are not aggregated are entered at the market prices prevailing
at the time of the transaction. Accordingly, trades that are not aggregated and that are entered at
different times during the same day may result in different pricing.
Item 13. Review of Accounts
As applicable, OakRidge performs various daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and periodic reviews
of its clients’ accounts. Such reviews are conducted by OakRidge’s investment professionals.
Among other criteria, each client’s account is reviewed to ensure that all trading activity is
performed in accordance with the investment parameters set for each client.
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Reviews of client accounts may be triggered if the client changes its investment objectives, or if
the market, political, or economic environment changes materially.
OakRidge intends to furnish to its clients as soon as practicable after the end of each taxable year
(or as otherwise required by law) annual reports containing financial statements as well as such tax
information as is necessary for each client to complete U.S. federal and state income tax or
information returns, along with any other tax information required by law.
Investors in pooled investment funds managed by OakRidge Alternatives should refer to the
governing documents of the relevant private fund for further information on the reports provided
by a particular private fund to its investors. Other client reports will be subject to the terms of the
advisory agreement establishing the relationship between OakRidge and such client.
Item 14. Client Referrals and Other Compensation
OakRidge currently does not maintain any arrangements with third parties for the receipt of client
referrals for which compensation is paid to such third parties.
Item 15. Custody
OakRidge does not have physical custody of any client assets.
However, OakRidge is deemed to have custody of certain clients’ funds and securities for various
reasons including the following:
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It has authority to deduct its advisory fees directly from client custodial accounts.
Its affiliate, OakRidge Alternatives, serves as the manager of pooled investment vehicles
that it advises.
It provides bill payment services on behalf of certain clients.
The Firm has arranged for an annual surprise examination to be conducted in connection with
certain client funds and/or securities over which it is deemed to have custody.
With respect to the pooled investment vehicles for which OakRidge Alternatives serves as manager,
the Firm arranges for audited financial statements to be delivered to clients as required by Rule
206(4)-2 under the Advisers Act.
To the extent that OakRidge clients receive reports from OakRidge, they should compare those
with any account statements received from their qualified custodian.
Item 16. Investment Discretion
Where authority is granted by its clients, OakRidge exercises investment discretion over client
accounts. Clients typically grant such authority through an investment advisory agreement they
sign with OakRidge.
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OakRidge Alternatives exercises investment discretion with respect to assets invested in pooled
investment vehicles it sponsors. Such authority is granted in the operating agreement entered into
between OakRidge Alternatives and investors in such pooled investment vehicles.
Item 17. Voting Client Securities
OakRidge does not vote proxies on behalf of its clients. The client maintains exclusive
responsibility for: (i) directing the manner in which proxies solicited by issuers of securities
beneficially owned by the client shall be voted; and (ii) making all elections relative to any mergers,
acquisitions, tender offers, bankruptcy proceeding, or other type of events pertaining to the client’s
investment assets.
OakRidge Alternatives accepts authority to vote proxies on behalf of the pooled investment
vehicles for which it serves as managing member. Proxies for such pooled investment vehicles will
be voted in accordance with proxy voting guidelines outlined in OakRidge’s compliance policies
and procedures. OakRidge Alternatives may face conflicts of interest in voting proxies. In such
circumstances, such conflicts will be reported to OakRidge’s Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”),
and proxies will be voted based on the direction of the CCO. Investors in pooled investment
vehicles sponsored by OakRidge Alternatives may obtain a copy of such proxy voting policies and
procedures upon request to OakRidge.
Item 18. Financial Information
OakRidge does not anticipate having any financial condition or impairment that would prevent it
from meeting its contractual commitments to its clients.
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